Abstract
The recognition that population health improvement is linked to the advancement of socioeconomic conditions is visible in the last years, stimulating changes in national and international policies. However, in several countries from Sub-Saharan Africa, if not in all of them, this relationship is inversely proportional. This article aims at reflecting about the connection between health and development in Mozambique. This reflection offers a comprehension about the economic growth registered in the country, with the great majority of the population living in precarious conditions and with a multiplicity of evitable diseases, demonstrating that the adopted policies do not favor an improvement of health and development. This situation requires the country to apply policies of income redistribution and health care to the most needed population.
Key words:
health; development; poverty